Posted on 12/07/2023 8:27:43 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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Did I fail to say armor storage? Armor is more than just tanks, and we are comparing conditions, not types of vehicles.
They could put in porta potties every 100 feet and make that housing for the homeless.
Excellent video from Perun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKiFAKMoi0&pp=ygUFcGVydW4%3D
More smoking accidents
We could build cities of cargo containers for them out there in the desert, but they would refuse to go. Homeless folks don’t want rules, they want anarchy. They want cities and suburbs with lots of drugs, and people to beg and steal from. So I guess my container city is going to need a wall.
Looks like some nice aluminum radiator scrap, sure they can pick them at the local Napa, those tanks will polish up just fine lol
Picture of a few rows from what I imagine is quite a lot, yes stored nicely in dry climate, and no piles of radiators lying around
Regardless SPGs and apcs are needed more than tanks I would say anyways
Tank radiators were prized in Russia as condensers for stills, to make bootleg vodka.
For many men the homelessness IS the lifestyle choice.
Even the Soviet Union could not stop some men from being homeless.
Living outdoors with a bottle of vodka and an open fire every night with your drinking buddies.
A lifestyle of totally indulging your alcoholism without being nagged or bothered, every night the companionship of fellow alcoholics, and then the passing out in your sleeping bag knowing that you can wake up on your own time and do it all over again, being mostly invisible to the system, law, and the normals. There will always be males drawn to that escapist world and its form of freedom.
The 3 month party bump is definitively over for Russian crude oil revenue.
October was the brief outlier for crude oil export revenue, when prices were near their peak, and volume was higher, as Russia exported cheap crude to foreign refineries, to produce the more profitable refined products (like diesel), to take the market share suddenly surrendered by Russia, when they idled half of their refineries.
It must be bad, if Putin risks capture by Interpol, to travel to Saudi Arabia, to beg for oil price support.
Even while the low profit margin crude oil exports had a brief bump, the higher margin refined petroleum product exports (like diesel), remained devastated after Russia’s self-imposed complete ban on exports on September 21st. Natural gas revenues also remain a mere shadow of their (pre-invasion, pre-sanctions) 2021 levels. Now crude oil prices are crashing as well:
Russia’s Flagship Crude Oil Falls Below the $60 Price Cap
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russias-Flagship-Crude-Oil-Falls-Below-the-60-Price-Cap.html
“The price of Russia’s flagship crude, Urals, has dropped below the $60 per barrel price cap for the first time in months amid plunging international benchmarks.
The price of Urals crude loaded from Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk fell to $56.15 a barrel, while the price of Urals at the Novorossiysk port in the Black Sea slumped to $56.55, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing data from Argus Media. The data is used to inform G-7 policy on the price cap.
Brent Crude prices fell below $75 per barrel on Wednesday, settling at the lowest level since June, amid rising U.S. oil production and inventories, concerns about the Chinese economy, and underwhelming OPEC+ cuts.
Urals crude has been trading above the price cap since July...
...Despite the Urals prices holding above the price cap, Russia’s largest oil and gas exporters saw their total revenues plunge by 41% between January and September compared to the same period last year, due to lower commodity prices and lower exports, Russia’s central bank said in a financial stability review on Thursday.
Over the first nine months of the year, the share of Chinese yuan in payments for Russia’s oil and gas exports jumped from 13% in January to 35% in September. The share of the exports in Russian rubles remains significant – at 39% in September 2023, the Bank of Russia said.”
Russian oil revenues are above when the war started. When oil prices were over 90 dollars per barrel.
Now that is some brilliant sanctions.
“Russian oil revenues are above when the war started. When oil prices were over 90 dollars per barrel.”
That was the brief monthly bump in crude oil revenue in October - not total oil and gas revenues. Crude oil is about the least profitable component of their oil and gas export mix. From the article you linked:
“Bloomberg data shows that Russia’s net income from oil in October amounted to $11.3 billion, which is 31% of the country’s monthly state budget revenue. This marks the highest figure since May 2022 and the largest sum for oil exports in any month prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the journalists added.”
“from oil” (crude)
“in October”
An unrepresentative snapshot, of a relatively small part of their industry, at an unrepresentative outlier timeframe.
In 2021 and prior, refined petroleum products (like diesel, gasoline, kerosene, Aviation fuel, etc.) accounted for a larger share of total Russian Oil and Gas revenues, than did crude oil. Now refined product exports are in crisis, and half or Russia’s 44 mega-refineries are off line, and at risk of freezing damage to their infrastructure. Other countries, like India, China, Turkey and the UAE took much of Russia’s former (high profit) market share for refined products, using much lower profit Russian crude as feedstock. Russia sold a bit more crude, but lost out on the former value added they used to make from refining.
And of course, most of Russia’s former market share for Natural Gas (85% of which went to the EU in 2021) has also been taken over by other suppliers, on long term contracts (USA a big winner).
According to the official reports of the Russian Ministry of Finance, total revenue to the Russian Government from oil and gas declined this year from last, and last year from the year before (before the invasion and sanctions) - down about 70% from pre-invasion levels. And that is in rubles - the decline is more marked in dollar terms, due to the decline in the value of the ruble.
WaPo Blame Game: Who Lost UKR?This two part series in the Washington Post is a must read because of what it tells the reader about the abysmal perfrormance of the White House and the Department of Defense. I found it genuinely shocking. I knew Biden, Austin and Milley were bad. I just did not appreciate how bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 marking the biggest screw up in history, these guys rate an 11.
The blame game about who lost Ukraine is starting. We know this thanks to the Washington Post, which managed to do some real reporting by publishing a two-part series on Ukraine’s failed counter offensive. Yep, kudos on that. The bad news? The analysis is shallow and repeats many of the false claims made by Ukrainians officials. That’s why I am here. To help you sort out the bullshit. Put on your hip waders. The bottomline is simple — the war is lost and the task of assigning blame is at hand.The key takeaway from this opening salvo is that the West knew early on that Ukraine’s counter offensive was not going to work. What is shocking, at least in my opinion, is that clowns like Austin and Milley actually believed they had viable chance to breech Russian lines. The failure of Ukraine is a consequence of two things — first, Ukraine had ZERO fixed wing air power available to employ against Russian positions and second, Ukraine was using inexperienced, poorly trained troops.The Washington Post pieces are:
Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine
and
In Ukraine, a war of incremental gains as counteroffensive stalls
Let’s start with the “Miscalculations” piece. There is some misdirection and BS in this piece that you need to take into account.
On June 15, in a conference room at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, flanked by top U.S. commanders, sat around a tablewith his Ukrainian counterpart, who was joined by aides from Kyiv. The room was heavy with an air of frustration.Austin, in his deliberate baritone, asked Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov about Ukraine’s decision–making in the opening days of its long-awaited counteroffensive, pressing him on why his forces weren’t using Western-supplied mine-clearing equipment to enable a larger, mechanized assault, or using smoke to conceal their advances.
Reznikov, a bald, bespectacled lawyer, said Ukraine’s military commanders were the ones making those decisions. But he noted that Ukraine’s armored vehicles were being destroyed by Russian helicopters, drones and artillery with every attempt to advance. Without air support, he said, the only option was to use artillery to shell Russian lines, dismount from the targeted vehicles and proceed on foot. . . .
The meeting in Brussels, less than two weeks into the campaign, illustrates how a counteroffensive born in optimism has failed to deliver its expected punch, generating friction and second-guessing between Washington and Kyiv and raising deeper questions about Ukraine’s ability to retake decisive amounts of territory.
Reverend Mother, the gig is almost up. Even "Quad D" Denys the Menys has apparently taken some time off to rethink how to rebrand given that there just isn't much grifting left in the ol' Ukraine propaganda business.
Recent Joe Blogs video on YouTube shows that the Russian property sector has been significantly warped over the last three years, by Government subsidized loans and high interest rates otherwise.
There are a growing number of borrowers who are underwater (negative equity - an outstanding mortgage balance for more than the house is worth), who are also spending over 80% of their income paying their mortgage.
They are building a property bubble, that will be hard to sustain if they enter hyperinflation in a year or two.
Yes! Just look at the abject desperation on evil Putin’s face as the crown prince slaps a high five!!
Russia(not unlike US), has been using many tricks to keep the numbers looking good, and insulating putins power base in western ethnic Russian Moscow and St. Petersburg, that is likely to change and not for the better
Like US, and China there are bubbles looming, but for Russia the clock for that is ticking much faster.
Currency manipulation, stimulus spending are kicking the can. As the saying goes. Things go slow till they don’t
Question as always, who breaks first
A settled “piece” that gives Putin some territorial gains will be touted as a victory and in some respects it will be because western reaction will have allowed it, but what a cost.
Personally that is best case scenario for Russia, I am of the opinion that the winter season will not be good to the Russians and General winter will not be kind and with the arrival of western aircraft and their capabilities and increased air defense capabilities things will get much hotter for them
My two cents, we will see
“Yes! Just look at the abject desperation on evil Putin’s face as the crown prince slaps a high five!”
That was 2018, before he became a fugitive from Interpol and The Hague.
FReepCheck: FALSE. media says photo is from Dec. 6, 2023. That was Wednesday.
Look at the date on the link you posted and at President Trump walking in behind Putin, and the date on the video and article at your link.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/——2018/11/30/
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